Linux operating system?

[Suzi H]

Linux operating system?
in a netbook

is it rubbish? ive always had windows, but want to buy a cheap laptop and this is what comes with the cheap one

is it good?
whats the difference is it just the way it looks - not as good as vista?

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1 hour ago

[ella]

from my understaning of linux is that its very very similar to windows the only differance is that its completely free you dont have to pay for it at all which is prob why it came with a cheaper laptop.

we use it at work for testing and have no problems what so ever so try it and see - if not purchase windows

[iainmatchett]

ignore the guy above......Linux i very good...and is getting easier and easier to use.....Linux Is a VERY GOOD OS....its become better than windows in many respects (it is only because of ignorance from people like the first answerer that we are still using windows)....

.....I assume you are talking about one of the ASUS laptops (the EEE range) These are excellent laptops.....the wireless is great...they are reliable....and VERY HARD WEARING (I dropped mines down the stairs and it survived....well it hit my knee first so it went quite far!)

[bestonnet_00]

From a technical point of view Linux is vastly superior to any of the crap Microsoft can put it (and they've known it for some time) and will probably end up taking over from windows as dominant OS around the end of this year if everything goes well.

The one area where you may have problems is if you need to run a windows application although even there wine can allow for a lot of windows programs to run under Linux. The problems with media codecs can be worked around (doing a search on the distro you get should provide the information on how to do that, it's usually legal reasons, not technical that cause the problems there).